AWS Public Sector Blog

The US federal procurement landscape is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in decades. This reform aims to usher in a new era of streamlined, commercial-first procurement. At the heart of this transformation is a bold vision: Federal procurement should be as agile and efficient as modern commerce. Enter AWS Marketplace—an offering that can help federal customers navigate this new age of federal procurement.

WildTrack is a fast-growing, award-winning nonprofit combining the ancient art and science of animal tracking with cutting-edge AI powered by AWS. The result is a new era in wildlife monitoring that democratizes conservation, empowering local communities to actively protect biodiversity. By merging traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)—refined over thousands of generations by indigenous trackers—with advanced machine learning, WildTrack’s approach transforms something as simple as a footprint into rich ecological insight. Read this post to learn more.

In this blog post, learn how BAC worked with AWS to eliminate computer lab lines, reduce infrastructure costs, and deliver professional design software to students across seven global Regions using Amazon AppStream 2.0.

To help you accelerate your compliance journey and improve your security posture, AWS Support offers AWS Managed Services (AMS). In this post, we explore how AMS security operations capabilities complement your existing teams and processes to accelerate your ISM compliance and optimize your cloud security posture overall.

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings processes documents as complete units, capturing both textual content and visual elements in a unified embedding space. This helps public sector organizations unlock the full value of their document repositories while maintaining the security, compliance, and accessibility standards required for government operations. Read this post to learn more.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office partnered with AWS and CC Tech Digital, an AWS Advanced Tier Partner, to modernize its subpoena handling process using a cloud-native, serverless solution on AWS. Read this post to learn more.

The Presidential AI Challenge is a nationwide initiative for educators and K-12 students to develop AI-powered solutions for real-world problems in their communities. With a January 20, 2026, deadline quickly approaching, now is the time to transform your idea into an impactful project. Whether you’re building a working prototype or crafting a detailed proposal, this guide breaks down exactly what you need to do to get your submission ready—specifically focusing on using PartyRock, the AWS no-code generative AI playground powered by Amazon Bedrock.

Each year, AWS provides AWS Imagine Grant winners with a holistic package of resources: unrestricted funding, AWS computing credits, and expert technical guidance to move their projects forward. Our three award categories are designed to support organizations at every stage of their cloud journey. This year—for the first time—our winner cohort spans six countries across three continents, with our inaugural nonprofit recipients in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Read this post to explore this year’s winning projects.

Cloud computing has emerged as a critical enabler of national security and defense capabilities across Europe. A new report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which AWS supported, shows the ways that four European nations leverage hyperscale cloud infrastructure to strengthen their defense posture and protect national interests in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Working with AWS, Cornell University built Socratic Chat, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that delivers personalized Socratic teaching at scale. By fall 2024, over 500 students across multiple courses were using the tool, spending 10-15 minutes per assignment, working through progressively harder questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy—freeing Ault and other professors to focus on in-depth instruction. Read this post to learn more.